Development of a sub terahertz high power pulse gyrotron for collective Thomson scattering

Author

Saito, Teruo ; Notake, Takashi ; Tatematsu, Yoshinori ; Fujii, Akihoto ; Agusu, La ; Ogawa, Isamu ; Idehara, Toshitaka ; Manuilov, Vladimir N.

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Dev. of Far-Infrared Region, Univ. of Fukui, Fukui

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A high power sub terahertz pulse gyrotron is under development in FIR-FU for application to collective Thomson scattering from a high density plasma in the large helical device. As the first step of this development, a pulse gyrotron using an existing electron gun was constructed and tested. Oscillations with frequencies around 400 GHz was observed at the second harmonic resonance. Several modes were confirmed to be single mode oscillation with the beam voltage up to 35 kV, near the maximum rating of the electron gun. A new gyrotron is now under construction as the second step of development. This gyrotron will be operated with a newly designed electron gun with the beam voltage up to 70 kV and the beam current up to 10 A.

Keywords

Thomson effect; gyrotrons; stellarators; terahertz waves; Large Helical Device; collective Thomson scattering; electron gun; high density plasma; subterahertz high power pulse gyrotron; Electron beams; Frequency; Gyrotrons; Plasma applications; Plasma density; Plasma devices; Scattering; Structural beams; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 2008. IRMMW-THz 2008. 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2119-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2120-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2008.4665739

Filename

4665739